Animal Gospel

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea. ~Isaiah 11:9

Frequently Asked Questions

Shouldn't all of the Scriptures that you're referring to only be taken allegorically for God's dealings with humans?

When the literal sense of Scripture makes sense and is consistent
with God's continually unfolding purposes and provisions of limitless
mercy and grace, then why shouldn't we take a text of Scripture
literally? According to Origen, a Scripture shouldn't be taken literally
in those cases where the plain reading of it seems to declare something
contradictory to God or unworthy of God, or inconsistent with His
limitless wisdom and mercy.

There are far too many entire chapters and long strings of verses
devoted to the supposed allegorizing of humans as animals for even the
most casual and unbiased observer to not wonder about God's purposes
where animals are concerned. Look at Isaiah 11, Isaiah 40, Ezekiel 34,
Psalm 23, John 10, etc. Many, if not all of these texts, are probably
understood by some Bible teacher somewhere and/or a commentary sitting
on an old dusty shelf somewhere as only having reference to Israel or
the Church.

The call of the animals in these latter days to enter into the
deliverance promised to the creation is to the modern Church what God's
purpose in gathering the Gentiles to Himself in Christ was to the early
100% Jewish Christian Church. It's a stumbling block, for sure, but an
area of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that Christians are just going
to have to accept and even sanctify themselves to not only receiving but
towards being a vibrant part of it!

Why may not our Lord do what He wills with what is His? Are not the
cattle on a thousand hills His? Why may not our Lord's heart be bigger
than we've ever dared to realize? Are His dealings with the early Jewish
Christian Church in Acts chapter 15 to teach us nothing about allowing
for God to have purposes of mercy greater, beyond, and outside of His
intimate dealings with us? Are we not to look to the same prophets of
the Bible that opened their eyes to God's call to the Gentiles to open
our eyes to God's call to the animals?